New Year, New Season, New Ways to Empower Students
🎙️ Season 2, Episode 1 - New Year, New Season, New Ways to Empower Students
Welcome to SEASON 2 of The Fresh Queens of ELA IRL! 👑📚
We’re back, giving you revolutionary ways to bring ELA to life in your classroom.
In this episode, we dive into NEW THINGS exciting us inside the classroom and in our lives, as well as our FAVORITE ways for empowering student thinking and showcasing understanding through choice in formative and summative assessments.
✨ What you’ll hear inside:
- Hannah and Ana’s exciting LIFE UPDATES, joys, and goals heading into 2026
- Our FAVORITE student choice assessments, including
- Character choice boards and writing prompts: bringing meaningful application to complex characterization.
- Characterization charts, graphs, and interactive scenarios that bring characters to LIFE beyond the pages of a text.
- Our FAVORITE student choice assessments, including
- “Staff Picks” to “Student Recs” showcasing student voice from our classrooms to the community
- Literary FOOD TRUCKS and giving students freedom to be creative and think differently about how they bring their knowledge of a text to LIFE
- How we give students CHOICE within an essay prompt to demonstrate meaningful synthesis and analysis.
🚨Bonus: Click here for a FREEBIE - activities from this episode we are OBSESSED WITH! Characterization places
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👉 Stay connected with us:
- Ana's socials: @simply.ana.p
- Hannah's socials: @teachengagingela
You can also visit our websites for extra resources + PDs:
- Hannah → www.teachengagingela.com
- Ana → www.simplyanap.com
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